Thousands of pulpit orators have swayed their audiences as … - William Arthur

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Thousands of pulpit orators have swayed their audiences as a wind sways standing corn; but in the result, those who were most affected differed nothing from their former selves. An effect of eloquence is sufficient to account for a vast amount of feeling at the moment; but to trace to this a moral power, by which a man, for his life long, overcomes his besetting sins, and adorns his name with Christian virtues, is to make sport of human nature.

William Arthur

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William Arthur (February 3, 1819 – March 21, 1901) was a Wesleyan Methodist minister.

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